Fixed Income Contracts in England

Fixed Income
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 178 249
Rank change year-on-year -1 +71 +6
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 371 472 498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.52% 1.30% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.47% 4.23% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 452 426
10th Percentile £550 £550 £550
25th Percentile £638 £650 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £875 £850 £850
90th Percentile £938 £899 £938
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £725
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +2.65%

All Generic Skills
England

Fixed Income falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,295 11,153 16,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.08% 30.62% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,419 7,312 11,284
10th Percentile £300 £266 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £697
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 817 571
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -16.66%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £64.38
90th Percentile £84.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.26
% change year-on-year +0.83% +41.54% -19.07%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in England.

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in England.

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -8 368 £750 - 262
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 - - 6
Fixed Income
UK

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 76 (20.49%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (14.29%) Apache
3 4 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.08%) Confluence
4 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.27%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 44 (11.86%) Aladdin
2 18 (4.85%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.35%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.54%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.27%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle TCA
Cloud Services
1 140 (37.74%) AWS
2 100 (26.95%) GCP
3 74 (19.95%) dbt
4 47 (12.67%) Snowflake
5 30 (8.09%) Azure
6 13 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (3.50%) Dagster
7 5 (1.35%) Figma
8 4 (1.08%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.54%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.54%) Prefect
10 1 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (31.00%) Data Lake
2 74 (19.95%) Amazon Athena
2 74 (19.95%) Apache Arrow
2 74 (19.95%) Apache Iceberg
2 74 (19.95%) Dremio
3 53 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (9.97%) Apache Ignite
5 9 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.16%) KDB
7 5 (1.35%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.08%) Kdb+
8 4 (1.08%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.54%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.54%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.54%) Power BI
9 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.43%) JIRA
2 6 (1.62%) Git
3 4 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.27%) Gradle
5 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.27%) JUnit
5 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 334 (90.03%) Finance
2 323 (87.06%) Front Office
3 116 (31.27%) Banking
4 70 (18.87%) Investment Banking
5 41 (11.05%) Social Skills
6 15 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.77%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.70%) Back Office
9 2 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (36.12%) Developer
2 132 (35.58%) Software Engineer
3 99 (26.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 90 (24.26%) Analyst
5 80 (21.56%) Business Analyst
6 74 (19.95%) AWS Engineer
6 74 (19.95%) AWS Software Engineer
7 51 (13.75%) Business Manager
7 51 (13.75%) Python Engineer
8 49 (13.21%) Python Software Engineer
9 45 (12.13%) AWS Developer
9 45 (12.13%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 42 (11.32%) Java Engineer
10 42 (11.32%) Java Software Engineer
11 37 (9.97%) Head of Finance
12 36 (9.70%) React Developer
12 36 (9.70%) Senior
13 35 (9.43%) Python Developer
14 27 (7.28%) Lead
15 26 (7.01%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (22.37%) React
2 62 (16.71%) Redux
3 60 (16.17%) Node.js
3 60 (16.17%) NumPy
3 60 (16.17%) Pandas
4 58 (15.63%) SciPy
5 50 (13.48%) AngularJS
6 47 (12.67%) Vue
7 37 (9.97%) gRPC
7 37 (9.97%) Protocol Buffers
8 29 (7.82%) PySpark
9 9 (2.43%) .NET
10 8 (2.16%) XML
11 7 (1.89%) .NET Framework
11 7 (1.89%) Reactive Extensions
12 6 (1.62%) Akka.NET
12 6 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (1.35%) OpenFin
14 4 (1.08%) Middleware
15 3 (0.81%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 208 (56.06%) Hedge funds
2 203 (54.72%) Derivative
3 202 (54.45%) Equities
4 200 (53.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 41 (11.05%) Product Ownership
6 26 (7.01%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.31%) Pricing Data
8 7 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.08%) Grid Computing
12 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.81%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 3 (0.81%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.81%) Market Risk
12 3 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.04%) Linux
2 9 (2.43%) Unix
3 8 (2.16%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.54%) Windows
4 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) CentOS
5 1 (0.27%) Debian
5 1 (0.27%) Fedora
5 1 (0.27%) Solaris
5 1 (0.27%) SUSE
5 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.27%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (79.51%) Agile
2 243 (65.50%) Investment Management
3 187 (50.40%) Asset Management
4 136 (36.66%) Software Engineering
5 102 (27.49%) Migration
6 96 (25.88%) Roadmaps
7 89 (23.99%) Regulatory Compliance
8 87 (23.45%) Data Governance
9 82 (22.10%) Fintech
10 79 (21.29%) Data Management
11 70 (18.87%) Analytics
12 56 (15.09%) Business Analysis
13 52 (14.02%) Portfolio Management
14 48 (12.94%) Performance Attribution
15 46 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (9.97%) User Experience
17 33 (8.89%) TDD
17 33 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
18 32 (8.63%) Risk Management
19 30 (8.09%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 190 (51.21%) Python
2 113 (30.46%) JavaScript
2 113 (30.46%) TypeScript
3 86 (23.18%) SQL
4 74 (19.95%) Java
5 13 (3.50%) C#
5 13 (3.50%) C++
6 6 (1.62%) F#
7 3 (0.81%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.54%) Perl
8 2 (0.54%) Ruby
8 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.27%) Bash
9 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (6.74%) Degree
2 3 (0.81%) CFA
3 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.27%) CBAP
4 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.27%) MBA
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.82%) MiFID
2 9 (2.43%) QA
3 2 (0.54%) EMIR
3 2 (0.54%) PMO
4 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.27%) Basel III
4 1 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.27%) FINRA
System Software
1 3 (0.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 5 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (0.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.54%) Kibana
4 1 (0.27%) Ansible
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) logstash
4 1 (0.27%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (11.59%) BISAM
2 22 (5.93%) Charles River
3 21 (5.66%) ION Trading
4 19 (5.12%) Calypso
5 18 (4.85%) SimCorp
6 7 (1.89%) Bloomberg
6 7 (1.89%) Microsoft
7 6 (1.62%) Murex
8 4 (1.08%) Databricks
8 4 (1.08%) Oracle
8 4 (1.08%) Sybase
9 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.81%) IBM
9 3 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.81%) Splunk
9 3 (0.81%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.54%) CQG
10 2 (0.54%) Reuters
10 2 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.27%) Solace